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Photographic Documentation of Monuments with Epi-Olmec Script/Imagery FAMSI © 2006: Jorge Pérez de Lara and John Justeson Photographic Documentation of Monuments with Epi-Olmec Script/Imagery Research Year : 2005 Culture : epi-Olmec Chronology : Pre-Classic Location : Xalapa Anthropology Museum, National Museum of Anthropology - Mexico City, Tres Zapotes Site Museum Sites : Xalapa, Tres Zapotes, Cerro de las Mesas, El Mesón Table of Contents Introduction Background Working Universe Technique Known epi-Olmec Texts A sketch of prior documentation of epi-Olmec texts The Tuxtla Statuette Cerro de las Mesas Stela 5, 6, 8, 15 The Chapultepec Stone Tres Zapotes Stela C Chiapa de Corzo The O’Boyle "mask" The La Mojarra Stela The Teotihuacan-style Mask The "Alvarado Stela" Some epi-Olmec Monuments that do not bear text Our Work The La Mojarra Stela Tres Zapotes Stela C Monuments of or relating to Cerro de las Mesas The Alvarado Stela Epi-Olmec monuments from El Mesón Acknowledgements List of Photographs Sources Cited Introduction This photographic documentation project provides photographic documentation of monuments in Mexican museums belonging to the so-called epi-Olmec tradition. The main purpose of this report is to disseminate a set of photographs that constitute part of the primary documentation of epi-Olmec monuments, with particular emphasis on those bearing epi-Olmec texts, and of a few monuments from a tradition that we suspect replaced it at Cerro de las Mesas. It does not include objects that are well-published elsewhere, nor does it include two objects to which we have been unable to gain access to. Its first aim is to marry a trustworthy photographic record and the web presence of FAMSI for the purpose of making widely available a large percentage of the corpus of monuments belonging to this cultural tradition. It is hoped that this will have a very positive effect on advancing the script’s understanding and supporting its decipherment. Submitted 08/18/2006 by: Jorge Pérez de Lara [email protected] Background Given the recent history of recovery of objects bearing epi-Olmec writing, new texts from this source are likely to continue appearing about once every 10 to 20 years, sometimes from field reconnaissance and archaeological excavations (a wall panel and an inscribed sherd from Chiapa de Corzo were recovered in the 1960s, the La Mojarra stela in 1986) and sometimes from private collections (as with the so-called O’Boyle "mask" and a Teotihuacan-style mask). In 1993, as part of the Project for the Documentation of the Languages of MesoAmerica, John Justeson and Terrence Kaufman initiated a different kind of effort to recover more text data: improving the documentation of texts that were inadequately documented, and recovering texts from known objects that they suspected to bear epi-Olmec writing although this had not been previously demonstrated to be the case. 2 Ideally, the documentation of these texts should consist of a good photographic record of the texts, and of the objects bearing them, and accurate drawings of each one. Justeson has produced field drawings of several epi-Olmec texts, in consultation with Kaufman, and is currently in the process of completing them; this work is discussed in the sketch of the history of the documentation of epi-Olmec texts, below. In 2004, Justeson brought Jorge Pérez de Lara in to photograph those insufficiently documented texts that are now in museums in Mexico, both as primary photographic documentation and as a basis for Justeson’s finalizing drawings of these texts. Working Universe The goal of this documentation effort is not to present an exhaustive coverage of all objects that display this script, but rather to provide a supplement to the corpus of those pieces that have been more widely disseminated, such as the Tuxtla Statuette or the Teotihuacan-style mask with a long Epi-Olmec text that was published fairly recently by Coe and Houston (see Mexicon , December, 2003). As the documentation work progressed, nevertheless, it became apparent that there were other monuments without Epi-Olmec texts on them that, nevertheless, appear to iconographically belong in the same or in a very similar tradition. This is the case of El Mesón Stela 1, the El Mesón basalt column or the Tepetlaxco monument, to name a few of them. So the decision was made to present these monuments alongside others more clearly inserted in this tradition, such as Cerro de las Mesas Stelae 5, 6 and 8. An especially strong effort has been made to present the photographic record of the very eroded (and less well-known) side text on La Mojarra Stela 1. Technique Documentation work was almost exclusively carried out at night, so as to avoid the effects of non-controlled, unwanted ambient light. Raking light (i.e., direct light projected onto the subject at a very oblique angle) was used for all photographs. This has the advantage of producing a strong contrast that often helps to bring out the eroded contours of figures and glyphs. The disadvantage of this technique is that, on very battered surfaces, it also brings out all the imperfections and scrapings on the rock, making it hard to distinguish between true carving and the random scratches produced by weathering and erosion. With the exception of the back of Tres Zapotes Stela C, which has two columns of text carved on an otherwise plain surface, the first thing that was usually aimed for was the production of a general photograph of the monument that was being recorded, in order to show the relationship between text and figure(s) and their relative sizes. These general shots are also very useful for showing where the details belong on a given monument. These general views were usually produced by lighting the monument first from its upper left and then from its upper right. Experience has shown that often detail 3 that goes unnoticed when lighting from one side can be recorded when lighting it from the opposite side. Also, the roughly 45° downward angle at which the light was projected on the stone surface is especially helpful in avoiding washing out true vertical and true horizontal lines, as is frequently the case when lighting, respectively from above and from the sides at 90° angles. Securing the participation in this documentation project of Dr. John Justeson of the State University of New York at Albany in the project proved invaluable. Dr. Justeson is one of a handful of scholars who has spent a very large amount of time working both with epi-Olmec script and with the iconography associated with the culture that produced it. After taking the general views of a monument, Dr. Justeson and this author would move in with a strong torchlight and light the details to be recorded from several angles, in order to determine what lighting arrangement worked best for each case. Then, the photographic lights were brought in at the chosen angle and we would fine-tune their position by using instant film proofs and digital previews until we felt we had achieved the best possible lighting for bringing out the detail to be recorded. All of the recording work presented together with this report was accomplished in the course of three "seasons". The first one during the months of May and June, 2005; the second one during August, 2005 and the third and last during July, 2006. Our first working sessions took place at the Xalapa Anthropology Museum, where we recorded views and details of both text and imagery of the following monuments: • Cerro de las Mesas Monument #5 • Cerro de las Mesas Monument #6 • Cerro de las Mesas Monument #8 • La Mojarra Stela #1 The second set of sessions took place at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, where we recorded general views and details of both text and imagery of the following monuments: • Tres Zapotes Stela C (lower portion) • Alvarado Stela #1 A third set of work sessions took place at the Tres Zapotes Site Museum, where we recorded several details the back of the upper portion of Tres Zapotes Stela C, as well as general views and some details of the iconography on its front: • Tres Zapotes Stela C (upper portion) During our stay in the area of Tres Zapotes, we also thought it important to record a very large monument (known as El Mesón Stela 1) that is currently lying in a precarious 4 position against an outside wall of the municipal building of the town of Ángel R. Cabada, in Veracruz. The monument’s state of preservation is good overall, but it lies in a place that is far from being the best, both from the point of view of its preservation and for the purpose of viewing it, since the abundant, non-directional natural light, makes it almost impossible to discern its design. The monument lies in the general cultural area where epi-Olmec script and imagery appears to have developed and this is the reason for recording it and presenting it together with the rest of the Epi-Olmec monuments in this project: • El Mesón stela In a second work session at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, we also recorded the so-called San Miguel Chapultepec monument and the Tepetlaxco stela. The first of these displays a single column of script that is not clearly not epi- Olmec. Nevertheless, its imagery bears an uncanny resemblance to other monuments from Cerro de las Mesas, most notably to that site’s Stela 5. As for the Tepetlaxco stela, it bears no script; nevertheless, its earth and sky iconography shows a strong resemblance to that of other epi-Olmec monuments, most notably those from Cerro de las Mesas: • San Miguel Chapultepec Monument • Tepetlaxco stela During our final July "season", we carried out coverage of the very eroded text on the side of La Mojarra Stela 1.
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